This weekend was basically the highlight of my spring break.
Alex decided that he needed cookware, a blender, a VCR, and
maybe a TV. So we decided to go to the mall. The first mall
we went to didn't have a Sears, so we decided to split. We
were there for about 10 minutes, but they still charged us
for parking. Bastards.

So we headed to Tyson's. After browsing the cookware section
of J.C Penny for an eternity or two, Alex just said "Screw
it, I'm going to buy it online." Alex also decided to be
silly and buy a $70 "watering
can". Silly Alex. Then I introduced him to Orange
Julius, or a generic derivation thereof. Thankfully, he had
some sense left, and loved it. We ended up having two each,
actually. Yummy

So then there was not much left, except to stop by the CD
store. Thankfully, they had the Spaceballs DVD out on the
shelf early, so I snatched that immediatley. It has provided
me with much amusement since. Then, at last, we were off to
our final destination: Eddie Baurer. nym apparently
loves cashmere socks, so I wanted to see what the fuss was
all about. But of course, they do not stock them :(

The rest of the weekend was basically spent struggling with
GTicker, which is now in a decent state. It is almost
documented, and very configurable now. Use It(TM).

I (finally) did my income taxes for the first time this
year. Even though Andover didn't withhold, I only ended up
paying $241. Next year I should get a refund, as Helix is
withholding. Doing taxes didn't actually seem so bad, though
I did have TurboTax to help me through the process. Of
course, this is assuming my e-file application was
accepted...

I finally bought myself a new laptop. A Sony VAIO PCG-505TR.
Only a Pentium MMX 300 with 64MB, but that should be fine
for light hacking and mailreading on the road. Thankfully,
it has better battery life than my last laptop (VAIO Z505SX,
which will soon be my sister's). It says 3-6 hours with the
supplied double-capacity battery, but I tried it last night
and only got 2:54. Still, better than the 12 minutes I was
getting before. Maybe I'll get a quad-capacity battery :)

So, SlashApp. Soon to be renamed GTicker. I finally
got that configuration dialog working. Now all that's left
is to get it working with different panel orientations.
Seeing as how I saw some documentation on that earlier
today, it shouldn't be too hard. I was even able to stay off
IRC for most of the time :)

Decided I need to visit shaver's
new place when he moves in, as he requested my presence.

I have decided to majorly cut down on the time I spend on
IRC. Instead of staying on LinuxNet 24/7, I am just going to
come on when it strikes my fancy. This will be much easier
when I have a social life again.
All of my friends left town since we have the entire next
week off from school.

I have decided my room needs office furniture, since my
parents are not going to let me have an office. This is sort
of a problem, as my room is pretty much full. Oh well. I'll
probably go to Office Depot today and find a nice hutch.

Work-related: A little work done this week. Mainly fixing up
Slashapp, and a little bit on the screensaver capplet.
Slashapp now only has two real things that need to be done
to it:

Make the site changes actually take effect

Handle resizing of the panel properly

Craig Small or I will hopefully finish that up any day now.
With this, your Slashapp will be configurable to read any
site on the net with the appropriate RDF/XML file. While
we're at it, we're searching for a new name :) The
screensaver capplet is going much better, now that I
scrapped all progress and started over. I'll probably submit
a patch, with a ChangeLog, to jrb in the next couple of
days. Wish me luck.

Hacking can be so frustrating. Gave up on the idea of using
Glade, reverted stuff to old hand-done UI. Moved to work on
keyboard-properties capplet, but got stuck on a really
stupid bug forever. Current status: hacking onward.

Personal stuff: watched Swimming with Sharks with my mom.
She picked me up from school since it was snowing. I hope it
snows tomorrow. A snow day would kick an immense amount of
ass.

Decided to start over on my control-center work. I think
Glade use may be relegated to the capplets. Was sure to
watch plenty of annoying music videos, as well as most of
the original Highlander movie.

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